Courtney Nichelle Coble – Transmutation

Description

Artist Statement

I create transparent epoxy resin portrait sculptures that reveal the traces of experience carried beneath outward appearance. Embedded objects become psychological and symbolic material, preserving evidence of pressure, constraint, memory, resilience, and transformation within a repeated human form. In Mind·Full·Ness®,
transparency allows what is usually hidden to remain visible: the burdens we hold together, the forces that restrict us, and the ways difficult experience can be transformed rather than erased. Each sculpture functions as both an individual portrait and part of a larger evolving archive of human experience. Together, these works ask what remains after pressure has acted upon us-and what those traces reveal about who we are becoming.